rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > On Friday, September 18, 2020 09:21:21 AM Brian wrote: >> On Fri 18 Sep 2020 at 07:32:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > Right now, if you un-check GNOME, but leave "Debian desktop" checked, >> > you get a mystery desktop, which usually but not always turns out to >> > be GNOME, which is the thing that you just un-checked. > >> The default desktop is determined by the Recommends: of task-desktop. >> The DEs are installed based on the Depends: of the various packages. >> Is there a better way of doing it? >> >> > How you don't find that confusing is a mystery to me. > >> Regarding new users: they are just as likely to be mystified by "lxde" >> and "lxqt" as by "Debian desktop environment". > > I don't know for sure, but one suggestion I'd make is to move that first > option > (whatever it said, something like Default debian desktop) to be the last > option and change the wording, something like: "[for advanced users:] [can be > used to] install X only (with no desktop)" (I guess if you want X only you > have select that in the other place you mentioned.)
And in that case, if users insist on this possibility, it would be much more useful to have this entry *always* install X only even without the "no recommends" option. -- Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY PGP 015AE9B25DCB0511D200A75DE5674DEA514C891D